How magnetic particle imaging is giving cell therapy a navigation system Scientists at Johns Hopkins used a whole-body imaging technique to track where therapeutic cells go after injection Written byAndrea Corona

https://www.drugdiscoverynews.com/how-magnetic-particle-imaging-is-giving-cell-therapy-a-navigation-system-17200 Cell therapies have transformed treatment for certain blood cancers and hold promise for autoimmune diseases and neurological conditions, but they share a fundamental problem: once therapeutic cells are injected into a patient, clinicians have almost no way to know where they go. Conventional imaging technologies including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) cannot reliably visualize the small cell numbers involved in these treatments, leaving researchers without feedback on whether a therapy is reaching its target, how many cells arrive, or why some patients respond and others do not.